Sentences with phrase «affecting skin colour»

The research published by GenoMEL has identified inherited genes which increase melanoma risk which are pigment genes (affecting skin colour and vulnerability to sunburn), genes which are associated with having more moles (melanocytic naevi) and others associated with a part of the genetic makeup of the cell called the telomere.

But science progresses, and since the analysis was done last year, many more genes affecting skin colour have been discovered.